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Try thinking outside of your own little box. To those in Islam all of us are infidel Christians. And that is Catholic. The Pope and the Catholic Church are the West to them.

Not precisely true. Islam has never much cared about the label beyond "christian" whether properly applied or not. So, what you're saying doesn't ring true historically.

Yeah, I didn't think "what did the Catholics do to upset the Muslims?" I must be the idiot.

You must be. Is this a journalistic piece we're looking at here - yes. Does it address an issue and make some peculiar statements - yes. Should we examine both sides of the story - yes. Instinct doesn't go out the window because Roman Catholicism is part of the story - except, apparently, if you happen to be a Roman Catholic apologist. Mere politics? I don't know... lol

Is this a journalistic piece we're looking at here - yes. Does it address an issue and make some peculiar statements - yes. Should we examine both sides of the story - yes. Instinct doesn't go out the window because Roman Catholicism is part of the story - except, apparently, if you happen to be a Roman Catholic apologist.

Your theory is that the Muslims are upset about Roman Catholic's being unfair to nascent Protestant momvements in South America, and therefor they blew up 5 Catholic Churches in Mosul?

Is that it? Cause that's just stupid. Havoc, no matter how much you hate the Catholics, you're going to have to stop projecting it onto Islam. They have no distinction between you and I. They have declared war on us. Deal with it and stop trying ot blame everything in the world on Catholics.